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Is it better for Larian Studios for us to buy via their website or to buy through kickstarter? I pledged on the KS, but if I can get more cash to them by paying through their website I'd prefer to do so - cutting out more middlemen and all that.

In a nutshell: Give everything you have and more to their kickstarter project!

We need to reach those stretch goals. There is no better option at this point. Maybe if they'd start counting the purchases on their website towards the stretch goals, it would be worth it, but even then -- the kickstarter number is psychologically imporant. It's a real shame that paypal payments aren't factored in.

Agreed!

PayPal is factored into stretch goals and even in new dungeon thing.

True but it's not visible, the more money in the Kickstarter the more visibility it gets and the more people will find out about it.

On the flip side they take an extra cut.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Paypal is factored into stretch goals, but not into the visible kickstarter numbers, reducing somewhat their impact on the campaign as such.

That is .. indeed a shame !

Not much can be done however, I fear, a KS itself doesn't support paypal. And I think manual adjustment of the numbers is considered ... bad practice. ;-)

This. I've been doing constant number crunching with my own finances just to see how much I can pledge (which isn't much tbh. Damn car payments) and still be safe for necessities.

I have a kickstarter addiction.

Thanks for the responses. Yeah that was what I was trying to weigh up - give to KS to help increase the visible success of the game to try to encourage more people, or give straight to company so they get a larger portion of the money. The difference is probably meaningless, but if one way helps more than the other... ; )

fingers crossed ;-)

I was wondering the same for quite a while... Though Kick does one thing better : add-ons. And the ability to spend those cool evenings in the comments section. But isn't the Kick cut something like 5%? Is it worth the little more visibility? Some devs explicitly said they prefered Paypal (eg. Dreamatrix) once funding reached... But I suppose no word from Larian concerning this means they prefer Kickstarter.

Wouldn't it be possible to implement add-ons with Paypal btw? Or simply to give more than the rewards amounts? I mean, I don't care about naming a pet etc. and would rather go for the 95$ reward + the fan day than the 250$ max Paypal pledge. Or give more than that without considering add-ons. Although, I understand that most of the support comes through Kick anyway so it's not essential. I know there are virtual prepaid credit cards, but there are more fees than I think it is worth (if someone knows one fees-free and easy to use, though, I'd appreciate the information...).

Yep basically identical. Add up yourself what it costs and send that amount through paypal. Then fill out the survey after the funding drive is finished.

I'll leave my KS pledge ($65 digital, dragon commander looks sweet too!) until I hear otherwise.

No add-ons through Paypal at the moment, but they're going to try and think of something.

Thanks Stabbey, I missed this one.

I was wondering the same thing as OP. I want to support the actual developers as much as possible. I have just recently been introduced to Divinity. I was looking for an old school RPG on Steam and almost picked up Baldor's Gate when I read a thread on Steam with some people claiming Divine Divinity was better. I'm not here to argue or debate that notion but nonetheless I wound up picking up Divine Divinity instead and I've been blown away with how amazingly fun and addictive the game has been.

I'm 56 hours in right now and when I looked up the website and seen that Original Sin was being made and they had a Kickstarter I knew I wanted to contribute. I haven't just yet and I'm pushing close to the deadline but I'm thinking I should be able to get a $65 pledge in between bills. In my opinion the only thing that I felt was missing in Divine Divinity was a party of likable characters, something that seems they're looking to do in Original Sin. Even if it's just two characters that's better than running around by yourself all the time.

TLDR: I'm a recent Divinity addict and I too was wanting to know how to best get my money to the developers. Looks like Kickstarter is the way to go.

The Kickstarter fees are 8-10% (for Amazon payments and Kickstarter) whereas paypal charges only about 2%.

So yes, if you pledge with paypal Larian will receive more money.